(25746) Nickscoville Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 January 2000 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Nicholas Z. Scoville (b. 1945) is an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology. A pioneer in radio, submillimeter, and infrared observations of interstellar gas, he founded the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), a large, multiwavelength survey of galaxies to determine their structure and evolution.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2017-12-03), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Nickscoville is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Nickscoville is 2.79 au from the Sun and 2.59 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25746 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AF242 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.79 km (#7,888 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.201 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.43 |
| Orbital period | 5.44 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.09 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.58 – 3.60 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.165 |
| Inclination | 17.1° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.61 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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